à tombeau ouvert

/\a tɔ̃.bo u.vɛʁ\/ adv

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

à tombeau ouvert is anFrenchadv. It means: À toute allure, très rapidement, ce qui met la vie en danger. Pronounced \a tɔ̃.bo u.vɛʁ\.

Key facts for à tombeau ouvert
PropertyValue
Headwordà tombeau ouvert
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a tɔ̃.bo u.vɛʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à tombeau ouvert is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à tombeau ouvert is 16 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a tɔ̃.bo u.vɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "À toute allure, très rapidement, ce qui met la vie en danger.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à tombeau ouvert in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is à tombeau ouvert, spelled À- -T-O-M-B-E-A-U- -O-U-V-E-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À toute allure, très rapidement, ce qui met la vie en danger.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à tombeau ouvert"?
"à tombeau ouvert" is spelled À- -T-O-M-B-E-A-U- -O-U-V-E-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a tɔ̃.bo u.vɛʁ\.
What does "à tombeau ouvert" mean?
As an adv, "à tombeau ouvert" means: À toute allure, très rapidement, ce qui met la vie en danger.
How do you pronounce "à tombeau ouvert"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à tombeau ouvert" is \a tɔ̃.bo u.vɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à tombeau ouvert" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.